Venerable Dr. Pooja Dabral

India

India

Venerable Dr. Pooja Dabral is an Assistant Professor at the School of Buddhist Studies,

Philosophy and Comparative Religion, as well as the School of Language, Literature and

Philosophy, Nalanda University. She gained her Ph.D. degree from the University of

Delhi. Her doctoral thesis is entitled, Arya Nagarjuna's Philosophy of Emptiness and Je

Tsongkhapa's Exposition: Dissent in Two Prolific Periods. With a research focus on the

Madhyamaka Philosophy and Buddhist Psychology, she has published papers on the

themes of Emptiness (Shunyata), Mind and Cognition in Buddhist Psychology, Form and

Substance in Buddhist Philosophy. She has also collaborated to produce publications for Tibet

House, Delhi, such as, The Blaze of Non-Dual Bodhicittas, and Buddhist Psychology.

Venerable Dr. Pooja has experience convening numerous national and international

conferences. She has also presented papers in them on a variety of topics, including the

Practice of Emptiness, Nonlocality and Individuation in Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist

Perspective on Matter and Particles, Vijnanavada Tradition, the Mind of Bodhicitta and

Tathagatagarbha in Mahayana Tradition.

Prior to joining Nalanda University, Venenerable Dr. Pooja served as Assistant Professor at the

Department of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology (affiliated

with Sikkim Central University), Sikkim, from 2019-2023. As a founding faculty member, she

helped set up the M.A. program at NIT, including establishing and developing the entire

curriculum, grading system, syllabus structure and supplementary readings. She has

supervised numerous M.A. dissertations and been a member of the Research Advisory

Committee for Ph.D. thesis. She specializes in teaching Madhyamaka Philosophy,

Buddhist Psychology, and Mahayana Tradition and Practice.

Venerable Dr. Pooja Dabral is proficient in Tibetan and German and has experience of teaching

the latter for many years at the University of Delhi and other institutes.